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I have a hard time believing there wasn't video drivers available for a windows pc

libreoffice is ugly, but functional enough. I use it on my windows machines as I really don't feel the need to pay for office for my home usage.

> The latter is the most important: Apple with its ultra tight control down to the tiniest chip on the motherboard can tune the performance in ways that cannot ever be achieved by either Windows or Linux, with 6+ hour usage times being the norm. Windows laptops with this usage time usually are way more than expensive than Macbooks, are heavier than a piece of granite rock, or a combination of both.

This definitely used to be the case (and was one of the main reasons I used macbooks over windows laptops, the other being the touchpad) but this is no longer true (outside of cheapo laptops) imo.

High quality ultrabooks like the dell xps 13 rival the macbook in build quality and battery life, and afaik are not more expensive than macbooks.

Depends on the operating system. For example on an Android phone it will usually say 'authentication problem'

> Ivy Bridge would freeze X if I closed and opened the lid enough, but that disappeared with the next version of Ubuntu. Similar issue with Skylake Lemur, went away when I used Manjaro with Mesa 13.

This kind of issue is why I stopped bothering with linux on laptops and got a macbook.

EVERY single laptop I've used linux on (which were all researched before hand to include hardware that's not supposed to have issues with linux, and this includes a system76 lemur ultra laptop I had with ubuntu pre-installed) has had issues along these lines (e.g. random graphics driver freezes, suspend/resume issues, backlight issues, wifi issues, randomly freezing during boot etc...).

Random suspend/resume issues were by far the most common issue. With every laptop it would work like 95% of the time, but that remaining 5% of the time where it decides it doesn't want to resume is enough to make it unusable as far as I'm concerned. I've not once ever had a macbook (with OSX) refuse to suspend or resume on me.

Sometimes you could distro hop, update your kernel etc... to get past them, but there would always be some new issue along those lines that would crop up eventually. I felt like I was spending more time distro hopping, reporting bugs, trying to work around bugs etc... then I was actually doing anything productive.

As I read his replies, I was immediately thinking "why not just use middle click"?

Then I saw that line and was just confused. Maybe he has a mouse with a really terrible scroll wheel and has assumed that all scroll wheels are terrible and that no one ever middle clicks?

> or using a wonky middle mouse button that most non-Solaris users never use

.... What?

I've always used windows, OSX and occasionally linux (have never used solaris) and I've always found middle click to open links in the background to be incredibly convenient, and I highly doubt that it's as rarely used as you're implying (especially considering that every single browser I can think of implements that behavior, I doubt they would bother if no one used it).

Middle clicking to close tabs is also incredibly convenient.

"Also, another issue is that there are thousands of different ways across all of the apps for how to interact with them. Some have "Quit" options, some have top bars, some have icons everywhere. There isn't cohesion."

How is that any different from Windows?

vivaldi's ui is web based and even slower than chrome's though

Wasn't it microsoft that fired a bunch of QA engineers?

Maybe systems that have 8gb ram but have integrated graphics that reserve a portion of system memory?

by default windows 10 will show you 'suggested' apps in your start menu programs list. This can be disabled in the settings (just open settings and search for suggestions)

I love my 2013 macbook air, but when it comes time to upgrade if I can't even do something as simple as plug in my headphones without a dongle there's no way I'm considering a macbook.

My nexus 7 became utterly unusable over time, even after a complete factory reset.

The only way I was able to make it remotely usable was to install an old version of cyanogen mod and install only bare minimum apps.

I can't believe this... what.cd's library and organization was completely unparalleled :(

I had a system76 laptop with ubuntu pre-installed and still had nothing but problems. I've tried a myriad of laptops (always with hardware that's supposed to play well with linux e.g. intel graphics/wifi etc...) with linux (as well as every distro under the sun), and while some definitely worked better than others, every single one had obnoxious game breaking issues/bugs (suspend/resume being occasionally unreliable being the most common, even on 'linux compatible' machines).

My system76 laptop also had an obnoxious firmware bug (that seemed to only effect linux) with the media keys that they basically told me they couldn't do anything about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52TaFzCDDkA

Linux desktop environments and software also have serious QA issues in general IMO. When running linux on the desktop I found myself spending more time reporting bugs than actually using my computer. I really enjoyed tinkering with linux, but when it comes to day to day use (particular on laptops) I found that the quality and reliability just wasn't there.

I ended up running windows on my system76 machine and eventually moving to a macbook air.

Maybe I'll try again in a few years :(

Touche

I don't think they're saying it's a bad idea in general, the issue here seems mostly related to the shadow dom making it difficult/complicated for people to theme atom/re-use components etc...

I'm not a web developer but I'm sure there are valid use cases for it, as well as use cases such as this one where it's not ideal

afaik they mainly use clevo

edge's interface looks like it was designed in an intern's spare time

Opera has had a feature like this for a while too: http://www.opera.com/blogs/desktop/2016/04/opera-beta-update...

> Mozilla was also the first to integrate the search and address fields, which they unfortunately stripped out of firefox (and many people think chrome introduced it).

Do you know when this was introduced/removed? I'm curious as to what this implementation was as I don't recall when this happened.

> So will someone out-Firefox Firefox and do what Chrome was to Safari for multi-processing? Take the rendering engine and put a new chrome on top of it?

I highly doubt it, as there's very little incentive to create a gecko based browser vs a webkit or chromium based browser.

This is definitely true when it comes to graphics, linux is the redheaded step child when it comes to the graphics stack.

Afaik firefox still doesn't have OpenGL accelerated compositing (at least not enabled in stable builds yet) on linux

On OSX and Windows it has hardware accelerated compositing, video decoding, canvas etc...

Have you tried with addons disabled? Your experience with E10s largely revolves around which addons you're using.

Some addons use compatibility shims with multi-process and this can significantly harm performance in some cases (even potentially making it worse than e10s disabled).

This site is useful regarding the addon compatibility: http://arewee10syet.com/

removing the EME support would be a mistake, if people can't do something as simple as watching netflix in firefox, they won't bother using firefox.

In any case, there will be an unbranded release of firefox eventually without the eme included

Their power saver isn't on by default either

With chrome you have more control over the start page, in that you can change it from the default one to a totally different one, but when comparing opera's speed dial to chrome's default start page Opera's is definitely far superior (and more customizable). The speed dial is the main reason I use opera as well (I like it much better than any speed dial addons for chrome/firefox, and even vivaldi's speed dial)

edit: apparently there are opera addons that allow you to load a custom page instead of the speed dial so that may also be a moot point anyway

people are complaining about the terminology they're using, because it only effects Opera and not other applications, even though that was completely obvious from the start.

They clarify it here: https://www.opera.com/blogs/news/2016/04/opera-doubling-serv...

"Our VPN feature is still in development. We are currently working hard to implement support for proxying even more of the browser traffic, including WebRTC and plug-ins. Having this functionality built into the browser, instead of as an extension, allows us to catch more situations, such as certificate revocation checks made by the system. Yes, the VPN feature is free, and we do not plan to charge for it. Our VPN is something we call a browser VPN. Under the hood it works by routing all the browser traffic properly encrypted via our secure proxies in various parts of the world. It will not route the traffic from other applications – as a system wide VPN would do – it’s a browser VPN after all."

Yeah people give the new Opera a pretty unfair rap, it's a good browser.